Thursday, October 15, 2026
The Wire
Posts from 19 of the hobby's best blogs, reviewers and publishers — updated every few hours. Every story links to its original source.
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Zenith is a tableau-building game with multi-use cards, tracks to climb, and five fronts to compete on, a la Lost Cities. If that sentence doesn't get your heart racing, you must be dead inside.
For me, it's probably a little too light and disjointed, but if you've got a group who like lighter games, I think you'll have a killer time, dudes & dudettes.
Within 90 minutes, you've had a really engaging, fast-paced, enjoyable game. It doesn't feel like you're making do. It's not like when you go, "Oh, we're six? Better dig out 7 Wonders again ". Excursions doesn't feel …
Snow Planner takes the concept of a dice-as-workers game, layers on a lovely theme, and delivers a really solid Japanese import special.
It's Autumn, or Fall for my transatlantic friends. Time to hunker down with warm, comfy things, and that includes games.
I went into Here Lies with no preconceptions and with barely any idea what the game was about, and came away both surprised and delighted.
The little box makes it feel like it's going to be something smaller and lighter, but there's a thick, juicy game here.
Call it a toy, call it a gimmick, call it a quality-of-life improvement, call it what you want, but the sucker dart in the Salamandra box is genius.
It's a cliché to say it, but Kobayakawa is much greater than the sum of its parts.
2026 saw the third iteration of Roll The Dice Cornwall's South West Cornwall Games Expo, and it was the best yet.
